Curtin Theses
Recent Submissions
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(2025)This thesis explores the policy opportunities for Australian food banks to improve the quality of donated food through nutrition-focused food banking. It includes four studies: a scoping review, an audit of donated food, ...
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(2025)The high demand for fossil fuels emits significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, posing a serious threat of global warming. Over the past decade, H2 has been evaluated as a green energy source to replace carbon-based ...
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(2025)This study investigates optimal operational conditions for stable granule formation in granular sludge reactors through data-driven modeling and experimental validation. Cluster analysis categorized reactors by settling ...
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(2025)This thesis explores how consensus emerges in social networks and online discussions. It introduces a multi-layer model to measure deliberation in Reddit threads and an agent-based model to study social diffusion driven ...
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(2025)This research explores how people living with Intracranial Hypertension (IH), a rare and complex chronic illness disability, develop valuable knowledge through their lived experiences. By gathering insights from 563 adults ...
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(2024)This thesis investigates the tectonothermal evolution of the Fraser Zone, Western Australia using a multiple geochronometer investigation coupled with phase equilibria modelling. Combined, this strategic method suite ...
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(2025)This research evaluated barrier materials for confining In-situ-recovery (ISR) operations within leaching boundaries and mitigating potential contaminant escape. Tailings-GGBFS binary mixtures were alkali-activated to ...
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(2025)This thesis uses observations to understand the Galactic population of stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars. We place detailed constraints on the deaths of massive stars, and refine existing, and test new, methods ...
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(2025)This doctoral research examines the impact of rurality on the incidence, management, and survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Western Australia. Rural areas had lower survival despite higher bystander intervention ...
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(2025)The thesis introduced a novel clustering framework utilising a composite cluster assessment index informed by subject matter expert knowledge to guide the selection of optimal cluster hyper-parameters. The framework defined ...